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Bruins trip Jayhawks in dramatic opener
Photo by Mke Saw
UCLA's Darrell Allums came in to control the boards against Kansas
Saturday, and as a result the Bruins ended up controlling the game
and winning, 83-76.
By MIKE MARINO
Emerald Sports Editor
All week people asked Gary
Cunningham what he thought of
having to play Kansas in the first
round of the NCAA basketball
tournament.
With six and half minutes gone
in the game Saturday, he could
have said "not much.”
His Bruins came out with all the
gusto of a lame racehorse to fall
behind by 10 points, but they
turned to their strengths and
fought their way back for a drama
tic 83-76 victory at Mac Court.
It wasn’t easy by any means.
“They are the best team we
have faced this year,” Cunning
ham said. “We had a great deal
of trouble shutting down their
transition game.”
Transition, you'll recall, is a
phrase right out of Westwood. But
in the beginning of both halves, it
was the Hayhawks who were
using the rebound-outlet-fast
break game effectively.
"We were in a great frame of
mind and playing loose,” said KU
Coach Ted Owens. “We were
playing the best early — the way I
felt we could play.”
Meanwhile, the surroundings
got to UCLA. With the Big Green
band playing "Mighty Oregon”
amidst the flavor of the Pit, the
Bruins showed a local trait — they
shot one for nine to open the
game.
“We got off to a slow start,”
Cunningham said to no one’s sur
prise. “I didn’t feel that the ball
Hogs overcome first-half jitters,
to control and beat Weber State
By MIKE GRADY
Of the Emerald
Sixth-ranked Arkansas shook
off its first-half jitters in the open
ing NCAA Western sub-regional
basketball game at Mac Arthur
Court Saturday, rolling past
Weber State, 73-52 and earning
the chance to face UCLA in Albu
querque N.M. Thursday.
Tabbed before the weekend as
the team to have the easiest time
of it in Eugene, the Razorbacks of
the Southwest Conference found
the unheralded Weber State
Wildcats tougher than expected. It
was more than six minutes into the
game before Arkansas could
claim the lead for good at 10-8, but
even then they couldn’t claim con
trol.
Two straight howitzers by Ar
kansas 6-4 All-American Marvin
Delph gave the Razorbacks their
biggest lead at eight, with seven
and-a-half minutes left in the half,
22-14, but the Wildcats clawed
and fought to keep the game from
getting out of hand just yet.
Two baskets by reserve guard
Ben Howland and a pair of free
throws by seven-foot center
Richard Smith, brought Weber
back to within four, 26-22. But
then Arkansas’ Ron Brewer took
over.
After Brewer, a 6-4 All
American missed his first six shots
early in the game, he finished off
the Razorback s first half scoring
in a flurry. Hitting both ends of a
one-and-one and two outside
jumpers in the final two-and-a-half
minute stretch, Brewer gave his
team a 32-36 lead at the intermis
sion.
With most of the shots coming
from Brewer, Delph and their third
All-American — Sidney Moncrief,
the Razorbacks came out from
halftime sizzling and outscored
Weber 15-4 in the first five-and
a-half minutes of action.
The taller and slower Wildcats
worked for close-range jump
shots against a loose Arkansas
zone, but nothing seemed to want
to find the bottom of the nets for
the Big-Sky Conference represen
tative.
“I thought we had good control
of the tempo in the first half,” said
Weber Coach Neil McCarthy.
“When it started getting away
from us was when we hit that dry
spell.”
“It seemed that they were really
hitting well from the perimeter and
we were missing four, five and
seven-foot shots."
While Arkansas was burning
the chords at a .567 clip in the
second half, Weber could manage
only .353. On the game overall,
Arkansas finished with a shooting
percentage of .517 while the Wild
cats finished at a dismal .359.
On the other hand, two people
who had no trouble shooting were
Brewer and Delph. The two
seniors scored 23 of Arkansas' 41
second-half points by combining
on nine of 14 shots from the floor
and five of seven from the charity
stripe.
Delph finished as high-man for
the game with 20 points while
Brewer was close behind at 19.
“My offensive production
was nothing in the first half, but I
wasn’t going to worry about it,”
said Brewer in the locker room
afterwards.
Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton, AP
and UPI coach of the Year, ap
peared relieved afterwards to get
the first game out of the way and
anxious to find out who he would
be playing in Albuquerque.
“It was really a very average
game for us," he said. "We’re cer
tainly going to have to play better
against UCLA or Kansas next
week.”
ARKANSAS (73) — Couwe 4. 0<*>h 20. Scttel 6.
Brewer 19. Monoief 16. WaKey, Zahn 2, Reed 2, Croc
ket 4. Totals 30 13-15 73.
WEBER STATE (52) — Johnson 9, Moore 14,
Smfth 8. Mattes 2, CoBns 13. Howland 6. McKone
Totals 23 6-11 52
FoUed out — none Total touts — Arkansas 17,
Weber Stats 14. Techrecaltoti — Weber StNe Coach
MoCartiy.
Oregon women
finish second
BELLINGHAM, Wash. —
Oregon’s women's basketball
team came up just a bit short here
over the weekend, as it made the
finals of the AIAW Regional Tour
nament only to lose to Washing
ton, 68-58.
Oregon beat Washington State
Friday night to gain the berth in the
final against the Huskies, and the
Ducks led UW, 45-44 midway into
the second half. But that was it for
Oregon, as the Huskies came
back to take the lead for good.
Julie Cushing and Becky
Pashcke led Oregon with 15
points apiece, and Debbie Adams
added 14. Margie Nielsen had 20
for Washingotn.
Oregon (88)— Adams 14 Paschke 15, Bicfctey
2. Cushing IS. Clawson 2. Shake! 2. Smith8. Ke*y
2. Hunt. Doherty
Weehlnglon (88) — \Mttman 15. DeCamp 10.
Feion 7. Smith 6. Nielsen 20. Norton 2. Bakken 8.
would ever go in the basket for us
at the start of the game.”
But the Bruins hadn’t come this
far on a fluke. With their skill they
came back and made it a game —
seven lead changes, six ties. And
they won it they only way they
could — by controlling the tempo.
With two minutes left and a
77-76 lead, UCLA went into the
“four corner” offense, a pretty
risky move with just a one-point
margin.
“One, we wanted to keep the
ball as long as we could,” Cunning
ham said. "Two, we wanted to
get a layup if we could. And three,
if we were fouled, we would have
to go to the line and make the free
throws. It gets a little scary.”
That it did when KU guard Wil
more Fowler chopped UCLA’s
Roy Hamilton for a foul and the
one-and-one situation. But Hamil
ton, who finished as the game’s
leading scorer with 23 points, hit
both shots with 1:22 showing on
the clock for 79-76.
Fifty seconds later Fowler did it
again, but so did Hamilton and the
Bruins led by five with :32 left.
“The key was when we started
hitting those one-and-ones,”
Cunningham said. “We were re
ally fortunate to make those and
win the game.”
Especially when they started so
badly. When Clint Johnson of
Kansas slammed one in off the
fast break at 13:33 of the first half,
the Jayhawks led by a 15-5 mar
gin.
But with the play of back-up
center Darrell Allums, who had six
points and six rebounds in the
next stretch, UCLA began to dick
and tied it with 7:31 to go, 25-25.
“Darrell Allums had his most
outstanding game of the year for
us today,” Cunningham said. “He
did a good job for us on the boards
when we needed it."
Allums also shut down Kansas
center Paul Mokeski, who burned
UCLA for a while with some strong
inside play.
“We just wanted to keep the ball
away from him, and hopefully he’d
have to foul to get position,” Al
lums said. “It hurt him a little bit.”
Did it ever. The 7-1 KU junior
picked up his fourth whistle with
just over six minutes gone after
intermission, and played timidly
the rest of the way.
“I had to give up a lot of things
inside,” Mokeski said. “There
were a lot of times I wanted to stay
with someone, but I couldn’t take a
chance on the fifth foul."
Still, Mokeski’s teammates
managed to carve a nine-point
spread early in the second half,
only to see that dwindle at the
UCLA free throw line as Kansas
kept on fouling, finishing with 40
total to UCLA’s 14.
UCLA trailed 67-62 when they
made five straight trips to the line
for five points. And then they
caught fire, with David Green
wood, Raymond Townsend and
Hamilton hitting jump shots as the
Bruins took control.
KU’s last lead came with 2:38 to
go, as John Douglas connected
on a 22-footer from the top of the
key for a 76-75 lead.
Twenty seconds later Johnson
grabbed Townsend to foul out and
the lone Bruin senior sank both
foul shots for the final lead, 76-76.
So the Bruins kept their record
dean of never losing an NCAA
first-rounder. They’ll face Arkan
sas next in Albuquerque which
means another tough team in the
tough Western Regional.
Kansas<76) — Kosrig 8, MokaaM 18, Johnson
15, Douglas 14, Valsftfns 11, Von Moora S.'Sw
dars 2, Fowler, GtOaon. Anderson. Totals 34 8-17
76.
UCLA (83) — Greenwood 14. VWkes 5, Sims 2.
HamWon 23. Townsend 22, AMums 6. Vandeweghe
11. Totals 28 27-39 86.
Halts me — Kansas 45. UCLA 42 Foulad out —
Koarig, Johnson. Valen 8ns. Total touts — Kansas
40. UCLA 14